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872668

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Clinical Priorities Advisory Group
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February to Question 128018, on Clinical Priorities Advisory Group, on what date NHS England plans to announce (a) announce the results of the prioritisation process and (b) make funding available for approved medicines policies.
	tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
	tabling member printed	Mark Tami
	uin	134482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has advised that it is expected that the recommendations from the relative prioritisation process will be received by the Specialised Services Commissioning Committee (SSCC) meeting on 19 June 2018. The aim will be to communicate the results as soon as possible following the SSCC meeting.</p><p>A process of relative prioritisation for determining discretionary investment in new specialised services was first introduced in 2016/17. Investment decisions are informed following advice from NHS England’s independently chaired Clinical Priorities Advisory Group and against a budget that is fixed annually. In 2016/17 and again in 2017/18, £25 million was set aside for this purpose. This was considered an appropriate level of investment in the context of NHS England’s Specialised Commissioning function having to achieve overall efficiency savings of approximately 2.7% and approximately 2.5% in 2016/17 and 2017/18 respectively in order to meet the financial pressures resulting from demographic growth and the legal requirement to fund all positive National Institute for Health and Care Excellence technology appraisals. Once funding is distributed following this relative prioritisation process, spend is not separately monitored.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 134484 134486 question first answered 04/04/2018 13:20:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

872670

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what process was used to forecast budgetary need in order to determine the £25 million annual budget allocation for products undergoing review by the NHS England specialised commissioning prioritisation process.
	tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
	tabling member printed	Mark Tami
	uin	134484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has advised that it is expected that the recommendations from the relative prioritisation process will be received by the Specialised Services Commissioning Committee (SSCC) meeting on 19 June 2018. The aim will be to communicate the results as soon as possible following the SSCC meeting.</p><p>A process of relative prioritisation for determining discretionary investment in new specialised services was first introduced in 2016/17. Investment decisions are informed following advice from NHS England’s independently chaired Clinical Priorities Advisory Group and against a budget that is fixed annually. In 2016/17 and again in 2017/18, £25 million was set aside for this purpose. This was considered an appropriate level of investment in the context of NHS England’s Specialised Commissioning function having to achieve overall efficiency savings of approximately 2.7% and approximately 2.5% in 2016/17 and 2017/18 respectively in order to meet the financial pressures resulting from demographic growth and the legal requirement to fund all positive National Institute for Health and Care Excellence technology appraisals. Once funding is distributed following this relative prioritisation process, spend is not separately monitored.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 134482 134486 question first answered 04/04/2018 13:20:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

872672

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) annual budget, (b) total annual expenditure and (c) rationale for how budget allocations were arrived at was for products reviewed by the NHS England specialised commissioning prioritisation process for the last three years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
	tabling member printed	Mark Tami
	uin	134486
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has advised that it is expected that the recommendations from the relative prioritisation process will be received by the Specialised Services Commissioning Committee (SSCC) meeting on 19 June 2018. The aim will be to communicate the results as soon as possible following the SSCC meeting.</p><p>A process of relative prioritisation for determining discretionary investment in new specialised services was first introduced in 2016/17. Investment decisions are informed following advice from NHS England’s independently chaired Clinical Priorities Advisory Group and against a budget that is fixed annually. In 2016/17 and again in 2017/18, £25 million was set aside for this purpose. This was considered an appropriate level of investment in the context of NHS England’s Specialised Commissioning function having to achieve overall efficiency savings of approximately 2.7% and approximately 2.5% in 2016/17 and 2017/18 respectively in order to meet the financial pressures resulting from demographic growth and the legal requirement to fund all positive National Institute for Health and Care Excellence technology appraisals. Once funding is distributed following this relative prioritisation process, spend is not separately monitored.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 134482 134484 question first answered 04/04/2018 13:20:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

1139818

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Cancer: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the target set out in the NHS long term plan that 50 per cent of teenagers and young adults with cancer will be able to take part in clinical trials by 2025.
	tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
	tabling member printed	Mark Tami
	uin	278391
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is working with NHS England, cancer charities, teenage and young adult cancer patients, and clinicians towards meeting this NHS Long Term Plan commitment.</p><p>The NIHR Clinical Research Network has held two summits. The first summit, held in 2017, developed a clear strategy. The second summit, held in April this year, focused on ensuring that the strategy’s objectives were still fit for purpose, and that the right stakeholders were engaged to ensure successful delivery. The NIHR Clinical Research Network is now funding a dedicated teenage and young adult cancer research nurse in each of its 15 Local Clinical Research Networks, with posts made available from 1 April 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/07/2019 16:06:24 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

999675

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Hygiene
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8915 on Hospitals: Hygiene, when he plans to publish the data on hospital hand hygiene compliance.
	tabling member constituency	Amber Valley
	tabling member printed	Nigel Mills
	uin	187024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2018 answer text <p>The 2008 Health and Social Care Act’s code of practice on the prevention and control of infections requires adequate provision of hand washing facilities, information on the importance of compliance with hand hygiene for visitors, regular refresher training for health professionals and support for patients to wash their hands. The Care Quality Commission monitors compliance with this code.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement leads on infection prevention and control and is developing a plan that will standardise policies and guidance on hand hygiene and will be looking at a national hand hygiene data collection and reporting methodology. This project is still in development and we will be able to advise on timelines as further updates are received from NHS Improvement.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/11/2018 12:58:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4136 label Biography information for Nigel Mills

896392

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training his Department has provided to (a) general civil servants, (b) fast stream civil servants and (c) senior civil servants on devolution and inter-governmental relations; how many such courses have taken place; and how many civil servants have attended such training courses in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	140636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department offers the Policy Certificate to all civil servants (including fast streamers and senior civil servants) within the Department and the Department’s arm’s length bodies (ALBs). The Department Devolution Policy Certificate module has been running since February 2015. Since February 2015 this module has run 19 times and 191 people registered to attend this training session, which includes representatives from the Department’s ALBs.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/05/2018 11:15:18 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

897934

	registered interest
	date	04/05/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training his Department has provided to (a) general civil servants, (b) fast stream civil servants and (c) senior civil servants on understanding the scrutiny and legislative roles of the UK Parliament; how many such courses have taken place; and how many civil servants have attended such training courses in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	141335
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department runs three training courses on understanding the scrutiny and legislative roles of the United Kingdom Parliament: legislation, Parliamentary accountability and select committees. Further information on registrations for these courses is in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Name of Module</p></td><td><p>Date introduced</p></td><td><p>Number of Sessions</p></td><td><p>Number of Registrations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Legislation</p></td><td><p>March 2015</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Parliamentary Accountability</p></td><td><p>February 2015</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>265</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Select Committees</p></td><td><p>March 2016</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>117</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p> </p><p>These courses are open to civil servants at all grades, including fast streamers, as well as staff in our arm’s length bodies. Therefore the total number of registrations will include non-civil servants as well as civil servants. These courses have been running since February 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Information on organisation and grade of attendee is collected in our feedback forms. However, not all attendees return feedback forms and this data is not an accurate representation of the grades of people who attended.</p><p> </p><p>Between November 2017 and January 2018 the Department also ran three workshops on secondary legislation for staff with statutory instruments due to be laid. 16 civil servants attended these workshops; information on grade was not collected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/05/2018 10:34:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

844024

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that local authorities have sufficient resources to meet increasing demand for social care.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	128141
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The Budget in March 2017 announced an additional £2 billion to be given to councils over the three years from 2017/18 for social care. More recently the Local Government Finance settlement announced a further £150 million for social care.</p><p> </p><p>This additional funding means that the Government has given councils access to up to £9.4 billion more dedicated funding for social care over the three years from 2017/18. Overall, councils are able to increase spending on adult social care in real terms in each of the next three years.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has set out plans to publish a Green Paper by summer 2018 presenting its proposals to reform care and support for older people</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 27/02/2018 13:43:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

844022

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Social Services: Minimum Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of sleep-in back pay for social care providers in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Ashfield District Council area and (c) Nottinghamshire County Council area.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	128138
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>This information is not centrally held.</p><p> </p><p>Social care is usually commissioned by local authorities but it can also be commissioned by the National Health Service, or paid for by self-funding individuals.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises the pressures these liabilities are placing on providers of social care, and we are exploring options to minimise any impact on the sector.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/02/2018 12:49:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

819091

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Social Services: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his ministerial responsibilities include children's social care.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	121768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Children’s social care is the policy responsibility of the Department for Education.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/01/2018 16:00:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner